“…“He remembers driving the train. He remembers going to that area generally, [but] has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual. The next thing he recalls is being thrown around, coming to, finding his bag, getting his cellphone and dialing 911,” Goggin [his lawyer] told ABC News…”
Hey, why not?!? After all, so far it’s worked for Lois Lerner, Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton; not to mention…
…Bobby, Louis and Ed!
With every passing day, the Dimocrats look less and less like the party of Harry Truman, and more and more like…
…Delta House. Which makes for great cinema; but, to borrow a phrase from Dennis in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, it’s unfortunately…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as Christopher Bedford notes in The Daily Caller…
Pigs get fat; self-serving New Jersey douchenozzles get slaughtered.
“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is working hard to shift gears. It’s difficult — those gears are worn after nearly a year and a half in traffic. The Chris Christie who bucked conventional wisdom is back, he wrote in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday morning; the Chris Christie who calls out his adversaries by name is back, he showed a New Hampshire primary audience Tuesday night. It’s a refreshing Hail Mary he’s throwing, no doubt: But it really is just that — a desperate, backfield hurtle in a losing game of his own making. Because Gov. Chris Christie has no friends.
…Mr. Christie is never going to be president of the United States. Where he once bounced on a springboard of his early blue-state successes, he is now mired in Jersey bogs of his own making. And who is there to help? No one. Why would they? Where was Mr. Christie when his then-allies needed him? In his home state; on the Hill with the speaker’s crew; across the GOP’s elite; or with conservatives of every stripe, the governor wasn’t even absent — he was their antagonist…”
A prediction we’re proud to have made back when Christie first embraced The Obamao. You can’t dance with the Devil and then express surprise when you wind up in Hell. Or, in Christie’s case, political purgatory.
It’s only coincidence so much of New Jersey resembles Hell!
Turning back to a story which embodies all the inevitable consequences of Progressive policies, as the Washington Examiner suggests…
“Remember when Congress responded to the alleged malfunction of Toyota brakes by offering the company $1 billion and telling its heroic employees to keep up the good work? No, neither do we.
Remember when the feds handed out cash to those Chinatown bus companies, whose unsafe practices led to passenger deaths, calling it a moral imperative for the sake of public safety? Again, we don’t either.
But somehow, it is different when a government-run company, Amtrak, kills and injures people through incompetence.On Tuesday night, Train 188 from Washington to New York City, along the most trafficked route in Amtrak’s system, jumped the rails, killing seven and injuring 200. Accidents do happen in even the best conditions, but this one happened because the train went into a 50 mile-per-hour curve at about 107 miles per hour.
It isn’t a lack of money that causes train operators to speed.But Democrats responded immediately with a hand darting out to grab more taxpayer dollars. Without knowing the cause of the accident, they demanded a doubling of Amtrak’s budget.You almost have to admire the brazen opportunism — making such demands while the wreck was still smoldering and most of the victims’ identities had not been made public…”
Sorry, “almost have to admire” is far too kind; utter contempt is more what comes to mind.
And since we’re on the subject of those for whom we have nothing but utter contempt:
“…Even when he interviewed the author of “Clinton Cash” — the high-profile book examining potential conflicts of interest behind Clinton Foundation funding — on ABC’s “This Week,” Stephanopoulos did not disclose his own contributions.
Stephanopoulos said in a statement on Thursday: “I made charitable donations to the Foundation in support of the work they’re doing on global AIDS prevention and deforestation, causes I care about deeply.I thought that my contributions were a matter of public record. However, in hindsight, I should have taken the extra step of personally disclosing my donations to my employer and to the viewers on air during the recent news stories about the Foundation.I apologize.” …”
Yes; Snuffleupagus cared so deeply about global AIDS prevention and deforestation he contributed $75K to a “charity” he KNOWS spends over $.85 of every $1 it receives on “travel” expenses and overhead.
Yeah…
Maybe Tom Brady should just “apologize”.
Will someone explain to us how Rinse Predouche ever allowed this dyed-in-the-wool Socialist to ever come within sniffing range of a Republican primary debate, let alone moderate one?!?
Yet another reason we’ll never contribute to the Republican Party, at least for the foreseeable future; rather only specific Conservative candidate.
Speaking of self-serving, self-deceiving douchenozzles…
Seriously: what do you expect from a guy working for The Obamao and whose school system just got downgraded by Moody’s to junk-bond status?!?
“Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Tuesday that he has met with gang leaders in his hometown of Chicago and they’ve told him that it’s a lack of jobs that keeps them on the streets.
“We have to have jobs for young people,” Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. “I probably shouldn’t say this in a room like this, but occasionally when I go home I’ll sit down with some of the gang leaders – back home in Chicago.”
He said he asked them what was the “biggest impediment” to getting gangs to stop their illicit activities. “It’s jobs,” Duncan told the federal government-sponsored event. “So we need to think about what we do at scale to create those kind of opportunities for young people who just have to make some money, want to do it in a positive way, but in too many places they don’t exist.”..”
Yes, Arne; after all, there are lots of employers, inner-city or otherwise, looking for high school-dropouts with sociopathic tendencies. Problem is, even when such employers do set up shop…
Dimocrats: the gift that keeps on taking; year…after year…after year; $22 trillion to date…andcounting!!!
Next up, writing at the WSJ, Cleta Mitchell details…
“…Congressional oversight has devolved into a series of show hearings after which nothing happens. No one gets fired for lying.No changes are made in the functioning of the agencies. No programs are defunded. Congress issues subpoenas that are ignored, contempt citations that aren’t enforced, criminal referrals that go into Justice Department wastebaskets.
If it is to function as a coequal branch of government, Congress should establish—either through the rules of each House, or by legislation, that it has standing to independently enforce a congressional subpoena through the federal courts. Congress also should use its purse strings to change specific behavior in federal agencies. Rather than across-the-board reductions, Congress should zero out specific departments and programs as agency misconduct is uncovered. It is the only way to stop the executive branch from running roughshod over the American people…”
Darrell Issa was only slightly less-disappointing as House Oversight Committee Chairman than Dubya was as President.
On the Lighter Side…
Finally, it’s another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as a Party Gal seeks to blame others for her dereliction of duty:
“A Wisconsin woman is looking for answers after she said Southwest Airlines refused to let her use her cellphone to make a call that could have saved her husband’s life. On April 3, Karen Momsen-Evers was flying back to Milwaukee after a girls’ trip in New Orleans.Right before takeoff, she received a text from her husband that read: “Karen, please forgive me for what I am about to do, I am going to kill myself…”
“I started shaking and I was panicked,” Momsen-Evers told FoxNews.com. “I texted him ‘no, ‘no,’ and he responded, ‘yes, because I have to.'”
The text reached her just as flight crew were finishing cabin checks, but she said she knew the text was “serious” because her husband, who’d been very stressed recently, never threatened suicide before. She said that she told a male flight attendant what was happening and showed him the text messages.
“The steward slapped the phone down and said ‘you have to put that in airplane mode. We were pushing away from the gate,'” Momsen-Evers recalls. The unidentified crew member explained that it was “FAA regulations.”
Helpless, Momsen-Evers waited until airborne to reach out to another flight attendant for help and asked if they could make an emergency call from the cockpit.
“I showed her the texts. She said that she there is nothing she could do and that they could not disturb the pilot. They offered me a drink, that was it,” says Momsen-Evers. “I just wanted someone to go and try to save him.”
Momsen-Evers says she spent the duration of the two-hour flight sobbing in her seat and was only able to call police after the plane arrived at the gate in Milwaukee. But when Momsen-Evers arrived home she was met by officers who told her that her husband Andy had already taken his life…”
Wow! Your husband is under severe stress, so you: (1). Seek professional counseling; (2). Stay by his side to comfort him; (3). Take a girls weekend to New Orleans.
Your husband threatens suicide, so you: (1). Obey the instructions of the cabin crew, turn your handheld device to airplane mode and sob all the way to Milwaukee; (2). Delete all text messages and emails remotely connected to foreign donors or Benghazi; (3). Raise holy hell and GTF off that airplane and to a phone to alert police to your husband’s condition.
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